Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer and writer, Peter Dunne brings
three decades of experience in story development, writing, and producing to his
workshops.He served as Vice
President of Development

for three Hollywood studios before beginning his
career as a screenwriter and producer. He has produced and/or written are such
classics as the extraordinary mini-series Sybil starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward, The Judy Garland Story, starring Andrea
McArdle,CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation, JAG, Melrose Place,
Dallas, Police Story, and Dr. Quinn:
Medicine Woman.

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Chantelle
Aimée Osman is the founder of Author Connect, where aspiring writers can get
their work in front of experts in their genre. A freelance editor and
consultant as well as the editor of RT Digital Extra magazine, she is an
instructor at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. A former
lawyer and head of development for production companies in Hollywood, Chantelle
is the author of the non-fiction series on writing THE QUICK AND DIRTY GUIDE
TO… she has also published numerous flash fiction and short stories. She is
currently editing an episodic anthology, SERIAL KILLER, for Polis Books to be
released Fall, 2016.

Friday, June 24, 2016

Best selling, award winning author Jonathan Maberry joins The Central Coast Writers Contest this year on the amazing Judges' Panel!

JONATHAN MABERRY is a NY Times bestselling novelist, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and comic book writer. He writes the Joe Ledger thrillers, the Rot & Ruin series, the Nightsiders series, the Dead of Night series, as well as standalone novels in multiple genres. His new and upcoming novels include KILL SWITCH, the 8th in his best-selling Joe Ledger thriller series; VAULT OF SHADOWS, a middle-grade

sf/fantasy mash-up; and MARS ONE, a standalone teen space travel novel. He is the editor of many anthologies including THE X-FILES, SCARY OUT THERE, OUT OF TUNE, and V-WARS. His comic book works include, among others, CAPTAIN AMERICA, the Bram Stoker Award-winning BAD BLOOD, ROT & RUIN, V-WARS, the NY Times bests-selling MARVEL ZOMBIES RETURN, and others. His books EXTINCTION MACHINE and V-WARS are in development for TV. A board game version of V-WARS was released in early 2016. He is the founder of the Writers Coffeehouse, and the co-founder of The Liars Club. Prior to becoming a full-time novelist, Jonathan spent twenty-five years as a magazine feature writer, martial arts instructor and playwright. He was a featured expert on the History Channel documentary, Zombies: A Living History and a regular expert on the TV series, True Monsters. He is one third of the very popular and mildly weird Three Guys With Beards pop-culture podcast. Jonathan lives in Del Mar, California with his wife, Sara Jo. www.jonathanmaberry.com

Monday, June 20, 2016

Renowned
agent Ken Sherman will provide a free 15 minute consultation for the winner of
our brand new category this year, Screenwriting!

Ken has been an agent for over twenty years and handles film,
television, and book writers as well as selling film and television rights for
books and life-rights.

Ken
is additionally a highly regarded and accomplished speaker and teacher. He lectures extensively at top venues
such as UCLA, USC, Loyola Marymount University, The Santa Barbara Writers’
Conference, the American Film Institute, The San Francisco Writers Conference,
The Maui Writers Conference, The Santa Fe Writers Conference, and so many more. This year Ken also joins The Central
Coast Writers Conference! He
received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eugene International Film
Festival, where he has co-taught a screenwriting classes for many years.

His
clients include, to name just a few, David Guterson, author ofSnow Falling on Cedars;Tawni
O’Dell, international best-selling author and Oprah Book Club recipient for her
first novel, Back Roads;Anne
Perry, the world’s best-known Victorian murder mystery writer and author of
over 85 books (and Central Coast Writers Contest Judge!); and Starhawk,
considered the best-known witch in the world. He also represents the estates of
Franz Kafka, Simon Wiesenthal and Willa Cather.

Ken
maintains strong community involvement as well, having served as an Arts and
Cultural Affairs Commissioner for the City of West Hollywood for ten years, is
a founding member of the British Academy of Film and Television/Los Angeles
(BAFTA), and is a member of both the Academy of Television Arts and Science and
the International Advisory Board of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation.

The Central Coast Writers Conference is proud to have Ken’s
participation this year, and The Central Coast Writers Contest is thrilled to
be able to offer this amazing bonus and opportunity for our first place winner
of Screenwriting!